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Chapter 30 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel
and Judah, and wrote letters also to

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Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should
come to the house of the Lord at

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Jerusalem, to keep the Passover unto the
Lord God of Israel.

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For the king had taken counsel,
and his princes, and all the congregation

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in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the
second month.

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For they could not keep it at that time,
because the priests had not sanctified

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themselves sufficiently, neither had the
people gathered themselves together to

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Jerusalem.

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And the thing pleased the king and all the
congregation.

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So they established a decree to make
proclamation throughout all Israel,

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from Beersheba even to Dan, that they
should come to keep the Passover unto the

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Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem.

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For they had not done it of a long time in
such sort as it was written.

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So the posts went with the letters from
the king and his princes throughout all

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Israel and Judah, and according to the
commandment of the king, saying,

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Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the
Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel,

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and he will return to the remnant of you
that are escaped out of the hand of the

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kings of Assyria.

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And be not ye like your fathers,
and like your brethren, which trespassed

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against the Lord God of their fathers,
who therefore gave them up to desolation

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as ye see.

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Now be ye not stiff-necked as your fathers
were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord,

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and enter into his sanctuary, which he
hath sanctified for ever, and serve the

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Lord your God, that the fierceness of his
wrath may turn away from you.

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For if ye turn again unto the Lord,
your brethren and your children shall find

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compassion before them that lead them
captive, so that they shall come again

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into this land.

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For the Lord your God is gracious and
merciful, and will not turn away his face

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from you, if ye return unto him.

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So the posts passed from city to city
through the country of Ephraim and

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Manasseh, even unto Zebulun.

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But they laughed them to scorn and mocked
them.

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Nevertheless, divers of Asher and Manasseh
and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came

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to Jerusalem.

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Also in Judah, the hand of God was to give
them one heart to do the commandment of

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the king and of the princes by the word of
the Lord.

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And there assembled at Jerusalem much
people to keep the feast of unleavened

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bread in the second month, a very great
congregation.

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And they arose and took away the altars
that were in Jerusalem.

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And all the altars for incense took they
away and cast them into the brook Kidron.

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Then they killed the Passover on the
fourteenth day of the second month.

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And the priests and the Levites were
ashamed and sanctified themselves and

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brought in their burnt offerings into the
house of the Lord.

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And they stood in their place after their
manner according to the law of Moses,

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the man of God.

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The priests sprinkled the blood which they
received of the hand of the Levites.

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For there were many in the congregation
that were not sanctified.

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Therefore the Levites had the charge of
the killing of the Passovers for everyone

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that was not clean, to sanctify them unto
the Lord.

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For a multitude of the people,
even many of Ephraim and Manasseh,

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Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed
themselves, yet did they eat the Passover

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otherwise than it was written.

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But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying,
The good Lord pardon everyone that

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prepareth his heart to seek God,
the Lord God of his fathers, though he be

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not cleansed according to the purification
of the sanctuary.

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And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah and
healed the people.

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And the children of Israel that were
present at Jerusalem kept the Feast of

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Unleavened Bread seven days with great
gladness.

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And the Levites and the priests praised
the Lord day by day, singing with loud

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instruments unto the Lord.

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And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all
the Levites that taught the good knowledge

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of the Lord.

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And they did eat throughout the Feast
seven days, offering peace offerings,

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and making confession to the Lord God of
their fathers.

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And the whole assembly took counsel to
keep other seven days.

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And they kept other seven days with
gladness.

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For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the
congregation a thousand bullocks and seven

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thousand sheep.

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And the princes gave to the congregation a
thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep.

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And a great number of priests sanctified
themselves.

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And all the congregation of Judah,
with the priests and the Levites,

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and all the congregation that came out of
Israel, and the strangers that came out of

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the land of Israel, and that dwelt in
Judah, rejoiced.

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So there was great joy in Jerusalem.

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For since the time of Solomon,
the son of David, king of Israel,

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there was not the like in Jerusalem.

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Then the priests, the Levites,
arose and blessed the people.

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And their voice was heard, and their
prayer came up to His holy dwelling place,

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even unto heaven.